This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
Following a forceful response from Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan to the Republican behind the scenes scheming to “enshrine” their welfare for the rich entitlement program known as the Empowerment Scholarship Account Private School Voucher System in the State Constitution, Legislative Democrats gathered with public school activists to call attention to the MAGA ‘hijacking” of … Read more
Cutting funding for children with disabilities. Stigmatizing innocent trans kids on what bathrooms they can use. Not fully funding public schools. Not advancing bills that would pay for school meals. The MAGA Republican War on Vulnerable Children Continues at both the Arizona State Legislature and across the nation. A day after the announcement that the … Read more
The way Republicans played the voucher game was a first clue here. When Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected the Republican desire to expand private school voucher-Empowerment Scholarship Accounts at the ballot box in 2018, the Doug Ducey Administration and their Anti-Public School Republican allies in the State Legislature went around the will of the people and passed … Read more
In a well-produced new video that is circulating across social media, Save Our Schools Arizona is calling out MAGA-loving and Turning Point head Charlie Kirk’s drive to create publicly funded private religious indoctrination centers under the guise of promoting “objective truth.” Below is a transcript of portions of the video narration: “There’s a big and … Read more